Dumping wagon-box



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DUMPING WAGON BOX. (Application tiled Jqne 27,-1898 (No Model.)

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NTTED STATES GEORGE CASKEY, OF PAGE, IOVA.

DUMPING WAGON-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 616,897, dated January 3, 1899.

Application iiled J'une 27,1898. Serial No. 684,630. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE CASKEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Page, in the county of Page and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Dumping WVagon- Box, of which the following is a speciiication.

The object of this invention is to provide improved means for dumping the contents of a wagon-box.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of elements hereinafter set forth,pointed out in my'claims, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of the device' mounted on a wagon, the dotted lines indicating the opening of the device for dumping the contents of the box. Fig. 2 is a plan showing apair of dumping-boxes placed end to end on a wheeled truck or wagon.

In the construction and operation of the device as shown the numeral designates a supporting-frame, l1 12 front and rear axles on which the frame 10 is mounted, and 13 14 front and rear supporting-wheels for the axles.

The axles andsupporting-wheels may be of an ordinary wagon from which the bolsters are removed, the frame 10 taking the place of the holsters and reach and connecting the axles.

A dumping-box is mounted on the frame 10, and comprises end-boards 16, side-boards 17, (one only of which is shown in Fig. 1,) and The end and side boards are connected at their ends to formabox-frame, and the sections of the bottom are hinged to the lower edges of the end-boards and normally are held horizontally between the side-boards. A cross-bar 2O is fixed to the inner end portion of the section 1S of the bottom and "projects downwardly from the lower face thereof. Hooks 21 (one only of which is shown in Fig. 1) are positioned vertically in and project at their upper ends from the end portions of the crossbar through the inner end of the section 18 of the bottom adjacent to the inner faces of the side-boards 17. The hooks 21 turn forwardly of the box and are engaged by one end, respectively, of each of a pair of bellcranks 22 23, (one only of which is shown in Fig. 1,) fulcrumed on the inner faces of the side-boards 17 and held normally in horizontal positions by retractile coil-sprin gs 24, connecting the forward ends thereof with the side-boards, and stops 25 seated in the sideboards below the bell-cranks and limiting and determining the movement thereof. by the springs. A chain 26 is connected at either end to the forward ends of the bell-cranks and has its bight run through screw-eyes 27 28 in the upper portions of the side-boards, and thence across the box between the screweyes. Longitudinal rods 29 are fixed to and extend horizontally rearwardly from the cross-bar 2O beneath the .bottomA The rear ends of the rods 29 pass through hangers 30, and the extremities thereof are curved downwardly. The hangers 30 depend from the inner edge of the section 19 of the bottom and are provided with rollers or sheaves 31 above and to be engaged by the rods 29. Two of the rods 29 and two of the hangers 30 are provided, one of each at each end of the crossbar 20, although one of each only is shown in Fig.1 of the drawings. 'Plates 32,33,34,and 35 are mounted verticallyin the corners of the box and xed to the inner faces of the sideboards thereof, the upper ends of which plates ,are apertured to admit hooks or bails (not shown) whereby the box may be attached to a lifting apparatus ,and elevated for deposition of the contents thereofin a crib or other receptacle. (Not shown.)

In Fig. 2 of the drawings I have shown two of the dumping-boxes mounted on the supporting-frame. These boxes are not connected in'any way and may be lifted and dumped or simply dumped independently of each other.

Portions of the bell-cranks are covered by sheet-metal shields 36, mounted on the sideboards to prevent packing of the grain in the box around and against the mechanism.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination with abox the bottom of which is' constructed of two hinged sections meeting in the central portion of the box, of a cross-bar on one bottom-section, rods on the cross-bar, hangers on the other bottom-section receiving the rods, sheaves on the hangers to engage the rods, hooks on the crossbar, bell-cranks on the side-boards of the box engaging the hooks normally and means for tripping the bell-cranks.

2. The axles and supporting-wheels,the sup- IOO to one bottom-section at right angles to the rods, hangers on the other bottom-section receiving the rods, hooks on the cross-bar, bellcranks on the side-boards of the box engaging the hooks normally, housings for the bell cranks and hooks, and means for tripping the bell-cranks.

GEORGE CASKEY.

In presence of- W. K. GLASGOW, I. B. CASKEY. 

